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Leners raam No. 94,279, daad Auguasl, 1869.v

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent -and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it` known that I, CHARLES Busen, ofGeneva, in the county of Ontario, and State off New York, have invented a Inew and improved Revolving Spring-Gun; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the ait to make and use ,the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specicationn which- Figure l represents a longitudinal -ve'1tical 'section of my improved spring-gun.

Figure 2 is a detail end view of the stock.

IFigure 3 is a detail face View of the revolving feedp ate.

Figure 4 is a detail back view of the reservoir-plate.

Figure 5 is a detail face view ofthe same. Y

Figure 6 is a detail back end view of the barrel.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. Y

This invention relates to a new spring air-gun, which is so constructed that it can be readily set to automatically place a charge into the barrel, or at least in line with the same, -it being provided with a reservoir, which' contains a suitable large number of charges.

The invention consists chiey in the combination of a perforated revolving feed-plate, with a statio'nary supply or reservoir-chamber, from which, as4 thefeved-plate is turned, the balls, constituting the charges, are transferred into the apertures of the feedplate.

The invention consists, secondly, in separatingV the breech-end of the barrel from the main bodyof the same, and in interposing a spring between the two parts bywhich the reservoir is held tight against the reed-plate. A

A, in the drawing, represents the stock of my improved spring air-gun.

lt contains l-fhe propelling-spring B and piston O, which are, as in all ordinary spring air-guns, te -force air through an aperture, a, in the face-plate b of the stock, said aperture having a cross-pin, c, as usual, to prevent the ball from falling into the stock.

From the stookA projects forward a centre-pin, D, around which two plates, E and F, are tted, their diameters being about the same as that of the faceplate b.

llhe barrel G has a shank, 'I,formed on it, which is adapted to receive the end of the pin D,'and which has au arm, d, that is' iocked to ior fitted against the end ofan arm, e, which projects from the stock, as shown.

The 'barrel is thus prevented from turning.

The inner plate, E, is the feed-plate. 1It is not much thicker than, cr about as thick as the Idiameter ofthe balls used in the gun, and has a'series of cylindrical apertures, each large enough to receive one ball.

The plate E can `be revolved around the pin D,.

and has notched edges, so that it can be locked'4 by a spring-catch, f, that is arranged in the arm e of the stock. When thus locked,` one of its apertures will be in lPatentline with the opening a of the face-plate b; when turned, it will be again locked, when its next aperture comes -in line with the opening c, and so forth.

The plate Fhas one aperture, g, extending right through it, and in line with the bore of -thefbarrely and with the opening a. It is thus locked inline by the breech-end of theba'rrol, which ts into a recess provided in F, as shown in iig. 1, and cannot be turned.

There is, in the plate F, provided a series of cham-V bers, h h, of about the same diameter as the bore of the barrel, each Yone extendingfrom the inner face of the plate into, but not through the same.

Each chamber h is made large enough to hold six or more br less balls. for the charges. l

`If there are twelve chambers h, each adapted for Asix balls, there will be seventy-two halls in this reservoir-plate F.

When a ball has been discharged through the barrel, and when, thereby, one ofthe apertures of the feed-plate has .been emptied, the feed-plate is turned,

.and when its empty aperture arrives under one of the 'empty apertures of E first arrive under it, and then the others in succession.

The breech-end of the barrel is made in form of a 'separate cylinder, H, fitted into a chamber that is provided in the body of the barrel, and forced, by,

means of a concealed spring, t', against the reservoirplate, to hold the same always tight against the feedplate, .and the latter againstthe face of the stock.' The loss of propelling-airthrough bad joints is thereby prevented.

In the bore of the reservoir-plate, or in the part' H of the barrel, is arranged 'a very light inwardprojecting sp1ing, j, which is just strong .enough to prevent the ball, that constitutes the charge, from falling out.

Having thus described my'invention, l

I claim as new, and desire tolsecure by Letters forced by a spring, fi, against the reservoir-plate F,

substantially as and for the purpose 'herein shown and described.

' Witnesses: CHARLES BUNGE.

JON E. BEAN, WM. F. Lann-Ax. 

